[Merge/Sort is the result of taking the "Wordprocessor"
at its literal word and sending Kostelanetz's "Mono-Poems"
source-text through a series of near random cut-paste and
alphabetization procedures. K.S.]

[Gambit--the opening move of a game--takes off from "Merge/Sort",
amplifying it in accord with the computer's ear. The source
vocabulary is expanded by addition of words that a standard
Word Processor designates as Phonetic Matches. K.S.]

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